A produce company is recalling cucumbers it shipped to 14 states over concerns they may be contaminated with Salmonella.
Fresh Start Produce Sales of Delray, Florida, said in a voluntary recall notice posted on the Food and Drug Administration's website that testing on a sample in Pennsylvania had revealed the presence of the bacteria.
The FDA is conducting whole-genome sequencing to determine whether the sample is related to an ongoing Salmonella outbreak investigation, according to the release.
The states that received the cucumbers are: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
They were shipped from May 17 to May 21.
The company said that the products were “unlikely” to be in stores but that consumers should check with their retailers or places of purchase to verify whether the cucumbers had been sold where they shop.
